Neglected and Emerging Tropical Diseases in South and Southeast Asia and Northern Australia / / edited by Patricia Graves [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Graves, Patricia,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (164 pages)

Neglected and Emerging Tropical Diseases in South and Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editors . vii -- Peter A. Leggat, Patricia Graves, Thewarach Laha and Khin Saw Aye Neglected and Emerging Tropical Diseases in South and Southeast Asia and Northern Australia Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2018, 3, 70, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed3030070 1 -- Benjamin F. R. Dickson, Patricia M. Graves and William J. McBride Lymphatic Filariasis in Mainland Southeast Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence and Disease Burden Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 32, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2030032 4 -- Jesse Masson, Jan Douglass, Maureen Roineau, Khin Saw Aye, Kyi May Htwe, Jeffrey Warner and Patricia M. Graves Concordance between Plasma and Filter Paper Sampling Techniques for the Lymphatic Filariasis Bm14 Antibody ELISA Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 6, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2020006 30 -- Jesse Masson, Jan Douglass, Maureen Roineau, Khin Saw Aye, Kyi May Htwe, Jeffrey Warner and Patricia M. Graves Relative Performance and Predictive Values of Plasma and Dried Blood Spots with Filter Paper Sampling Techniques and Dilutions of the Lymphatic Filariasis Og4C3 Antigen ELISA for Samples from Myanmar Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 7, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2020007 39 -- Janet Douglass, Patricia Graves, Daniel Lindsay, Luke Becker, Maureen Roineau, Jesse Masson, Ni Ni Aye, San San Win, Tint Wai, Yi Yi Win and Susan Gordon Lymphatic Filariasis Increases Tissue Compressibility and Extracellular Fluid in Lower Limbs of Asymptomatic Young People in Central Myanmar Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 50, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2040050 49 -- Catherine A. Gordon, Johanna Kurscheid, Malcolm K. Jones, Darren J. Gray and Donald P. McManus Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Tropical Australia and Asia Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 56, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2040056 63 -- Johanna K. Mayer-Coverdale, Amy Crowe, Pamela Smith and Robert W. Baird Trends in Strongyloides stercoralis Faecal Larvae Detections in the Northern Territory, Australia: 2002 to 2012 Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 18, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2020018 95 -- Deborah C. Holt, Jennifer Shield, Tegan M. Harris, Kate E. Mounsey, Kieran Aland, James S. McCarthy, Bart J. Currie and Therese M. Kearns Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Children in a Remote Aboriginal Community in the Northern Territory: Hookworm is Rare but Strongyloides stercoralis and Trichuris trichiura Persist Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 51, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2040051 104 -- Allen G. Ross, Keren Papier, Ruby Luceres-Catubig, Thao N. Chau, Marianette T. Inobaya and Shu-Kay Ng Poverty, Dietary Intake, Intestinal Parasites, and Nutritional Status among School-Age Children in the Rural Philippines Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 49, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2040049 113 -- Adam Stewart, Mark Armstrong, Stephen Graves and Krispin Hajkowicz Epidemiology and Characteristics of Rickettsia australis (Queensland Tick Typhus) Infection in Hospitalized Patients in North Brisbane, Australia Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 10, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2020010 123 -- Kittipong Chaisiri, Jean-Fran¸cois Cosson and Serge Morand Infection of Rodents by Orientia tsutsugamushi, the Agent of Scrub Typhus, in Relation to Land Use in Thailand Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 53, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2040053 129 -- Narayan Gyawali and Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson Confronting the Emerging Threat to Public Health in Northern Australia of Neglected Indigenous Arboviruses Reprinted from: Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2017, 2, 55, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed2040055 140.